US President Trump: Happy about Flynn, he was treated horribly

President Donald Trump says he is "happy about General Flynn. He was treated horribly."

"He was treated very, very horribly by a group of very bad people," said Trump during an Oval Office meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda.

"I think you'll see things are going to start to come out. But what happened to General Flynn should never happen again in our country. He was persecuted and many other people were persecuted. They spied on a campaign and they should never spy on a campaign, to put it mildly. Never happened before in the history of our country. "

A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered the dismissal of the criminal case against Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn, turning back efforts by a judge to scrutinize the Justice Department's extraordinary decision to drop the prosecution.

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said in a 2-1 ruling that the Justice Department's decision to abandon the case against Flynn settles the matter, even though Flynn pleaded guilty as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation to lying to the FBI.